Nature

Nature Nature can sometimes become spiritual and personal. In the case of Joan Didion and his views on the Santa Ana, he believes that these winds makes people act certain ways, and their feelings are inexplicable. Although many suppose that their actions are caused as a result of the amount of positive and negative ions in the atmosphere, there are other reasons beyond that, at least this is what Didion believes. He introduces the Santa Ana winds by using tone and diction. His tone here seems serious and intrigued. Didion uses specific descriptions to give the reader an overwhelming feeling of awkwardness and anxiety. “There is something uneasy in the Los Angeles air this afternoon, some unnatural stillness, some tension”(lines 1-2). His use of words here are made to give more introduction as to what the winds contribute in this society, and again, this gives more effect to the reader. Didion uses plenty of detail and imagery to convey his ideas even further. He tells of his neighbor, a woman who does not leave her house. It is always dark outside at night winds, didion, reader, santa, ana, views, using, toward, tone, picture, outside, night, nature, made, ions, imagery, ideas, happens, give, feelings, effect, convey, contribute, continues, believes, although, yellow, words, woman, woke, ways, very, unnatural, uneasy, troubled, trespassers